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Deterioration
Piranesi ambience
Category Story Event
Type Story
Data ID 288333

Deterioration is a Sunless Skies Story Event.

Story description[ | ]

Every prisoner who wanders Piranesi is wrapped in their own private torment. When you do attempt to strike up a conversation, they flinch and shuffle away as though struck. Do they worry that a conversation might stultify their metamorphosis? When you do manage to exchange a few words with a fellow inmate, their advice is invariably the same: Don't try to improve yourself. Piranesi takes more than it gives.

Trigger conditions[ | ]

Location: Piranesi
Area: Limbo
Frequency: Always (100%)

Interactions[ | ]

Actions Requirements Effects Notes
Break yourself open
This will sacrifice some of your Iron and Hearts. This cannot be reversed.
Deterioration
You wander Piranesi for perhaps a week, perhaps a month, stubbornly failing to change. Tiredness, and its handmaid madness, come to your aid. In a half-lucid daze, you are able to abandon yourself. You are chained to a spiked wheel, caressed by hammer-blows and whips. You squeeze through the warrens, leaving half yourself behind. You crawl beneath a fallen stone and hide there until you've forgotten what you look like.
Advanced alteration value probably needs examination.

Advanced alteration value probably needs examination.

Advanced alteration value probably needs examination.


Blunt the keen edges of your mind
This will sacrifice some of your Veils and Mirrors. This cannot be reversed.
Deterioration
You wander Piranesi for perhaps a week, perhaps a month, stubbornly failing to change. Tiredness, and its handmaid madness, come to your aid. In a half-lucid daze, you are able to abandon yourself. You are enraptured by the paranoid ravings of a fellow prisoner, and howl in agreement. You lie your head against an anvil, imagining the hammer. You find a library and burn it down.
Advanced alteration value probably needs examination.

Advanced alteration value probably needs examination.

Advanced alteration value probably needs examination.


Jettison your scruples
This will sacrifice some of your Mirrors and Iron. This cannot be reversed.
Deterioration
You wander Piranesi for perhaps a week, perhaps a month, stubbornly failing to change. Tiredness, and its handmaid madness, come to your aid. In a half-lucid daze, you are able to abandon yourself. You explore all the indulgences you once hoped to avoid, until you feel stained inside. You drown yourself in an ice-cold pit, filled with electric joy by the sensation of your nerves dying. You swap eyes with a scrivener on a whim.
Advanced alteration value probably needs examination.

Advanced alteration value probably needs examination.

Advanced alteration value probably needs examination.


Calcify your heart
This will sacrifice some of your Hearts and Veils. This cannot be reversed.
Deterioration
You wander Piranesi for perhaps a week, perhaps a month, stubbornly failing to change. Tiredness, and its handmaid madness, come to your aid. In a half-lucid daze, you are able to abandon yourself. You lose yourself in nightmares of carnage until they become comforting dreams. You sing while you gnaw at your own fingers. You forget the faces of your friends, but your enemies haunt you like ghosts.
Advanced alteration value probably needs examination.

Advanced alteration value probably needs examination.

Advanced alteration value probably needs examination.


On second thoughts...
Piranesi demands too much.


Links[ | ]

Links In[ | ]

Lantern Incarceration

Links Out[ | ]

Lantern Incarceration


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